plementary thereto, under such exceptions and restrictions, and on such bond and security being given as the public interest and circumstances of the case may appear to require: Provided, such suspension shall not extend beyond twenty days after the next meeting of Congress. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives, S. SMITH, President of the Senate, pro tempore. April 22, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LIII. AN ACT to alter the time for the next meeting of Congress. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That after the adjournment of the present session, the next meeting of Congress shall be on the first Monday of November next. CHAPTER LIV. AN ACT for the relief of Philip Turner. E it enacted by the Senate and House of P Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are authorised and directed, to liquidate and settle the account of Philip Turner, late hospital physician and surgeon, and that they allow him the commutation equal to the half pay of a captain, agreeably to a resolution of Congress, passed on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty one: Provided, the said Philip Turner, or the receipt of the money directed to be paid him by this act, shall execute in consideration thereof, a discharge to the United States, of all demands whatsoever, and deposit the same in the office of the register of the treasury. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tempore. April 22, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LV. AN ACT making provision for arming and equiping the whole body of the militia of the United States. PE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Annual appropriation for arms and military annual sum of two hundred thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated, for the purpose of providing arms and military equipments for the whole body of the militia equipments. of the United States, either by purchase or manufacture, by and on account of the Unit. ed States. President au- Arms to be states and Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorised, to purchase scites for, and erect such additional arsenals and manu. factories of arms, as he may deem expedient, under the limitations and restrictions now provided by law: Provided also, That so much of any law as restricts the number of workmen in the armories of the United States to one hundred men, be, and the same hereby is repealed. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the arms procured in virtue of this act, shall be transmitted to the several states distributed composing this union, and territories thereamongst the of, to each stafe and territory respectively, territories in proportion to the number of the effective In what pro- militia in each state and territory, and by each state and territory to be distributed, to the militia in such state and territory under such rules and regulations as shall be by law prescribed by the legislature of each state and territory. portions. CHAPTER LVI. AN ACT to establish certain post roads in the states of Georgia and Ohio. From E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following post-roads be established, viz. From Darien, by John Jones' to Milledgeville, and from thence to Athens. Sparta to Milledgeville, and from thence by Jones's court house to the Garrison on Oakmulgee. From Milledgeville to Putnam court house, and from thence to Morgan court house, and to Randolph court house. From New Lisbon to Canton, in Ohio. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tempore. April 23, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LVII. AN ACT making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in an appropriation for the support of government during the present year, and making an appropriation for defraying the expenses incident to the valuation of houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That to Appropriation. Appropria tion. make good a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent expenses of both Houses of Congress, authorised by the act of the tenth of February last, the further sum of seven thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding five thousand four hundred and one dollars and twenty-seven cents, the balance of a former appropriation to that amount, for that object, having been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for defraying the further expenses incident to the valuation of houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States. AN ACT concerning invalid pensioners. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the secretary of war be, and he is hereby di |